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A major project has reduced strain and sprains by 25 per cent in eight months, by observing workers' day-to-day activities and proactively identifying and implementing safer ways to carry out manual handling tasks, according to its safety manager.

• Take WHS notices "more seriously", lawyers tell PCBUs;
  
• SWA repeats call for comments on national WHS review; and
  
• Safety protections for emergency workers commence in Vic.

• Young workers the focus of Memorial Day;
  
• Regulators issue diesel, excavator, generator and structure alerts; and
  
• WHS and insurance awards open in NSW.

• Mandatory WHS Code commences in Qld;
  
• Three mirror WHS Codes adopted by ACT; and
  
• Controversial workers' comp Bill defeated in Vic.

A major and alarming Harvard University study has found that occupational exposure to radiation, shift work and poor diet has resulted in flight attendants being significantly more likely than others to develop cancer and other adverse health conditions.

A company officer has been convicted of failing to exercise due diligence in relation to a serious safety incident and a supervisory stuff-up that occurred while he was on annual leave.

A teenage apprentice was killed while undertaking a task that should have been performed by a "competent person" within the meaning of a WHS Code, a court has found in fining his host employer $405,000.

The Greens have called for a WHS regulator to reveal how many abandoned cases are under review, after it re-classified a nurse's murder as work-related and apologised to her family.

A worker's widow has been denied damages for nervous shock, after a superior court rejected her claim that her husband's employer negligently failed to stop him drinking alcohol at the workplace after hours.

It takes more than just the people within an organisation to facilitate a positive culture and worker wellbeing. Building managers and others who own and run workplaces need to "set the tone", a leading psychologist says.